For today, links to reports from National Public Radio, the Associated, Reuters, and Agence France-Presse; others are accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (UKRAINE entry for this date and a YEMEN entry are HERE and HERE.) — MCM
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War in Gaza drove them from their homes. Now, many Palestinians can’t even find tents, by Becky Sullivan, Anas Baba and Abu Bakr Bashir | NPR RAFAH, the Gaza Strip — The tents and makeshift shelters have sprung up everywhere in recent weeks: on the streets, in the courtyards of hospitals and schools, on once-empty patches . . . Click HERE to read.
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Hostage families protest outside Netanyahu’s home, ramping up pressure for a truce-for-hostages deal, by Julia Frankel, Samy Magdy and Elena Becatoros | AP JERUSALEM — Relatives of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza protested today outside the home of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, expressing . . . READ MORE . . .
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Israeli drones attack hospital in southern Gaza, Palestinian Red Crescent says, by Ibraheemabu Mustafa and Nidal Al-Mughrabi | Reuters The Palestinian Red Crescent accused Israel of firing Friday at a hospital in Khan Younis, as a major advance in the main city in the southern Gaza Strip threatened the few healthcare facilities still open. The Gaza health ministry . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM JAN. 19 Israel to allow flour shipments for Gaza through key port: U.S. From AFP. Israel will let shipments of flour for Palestinians through the Israeli port of Ashdod, north of Gaza, the White House said Friday after President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke. The . . . READ MORE . . .
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Switzerland says Israeli president subject of criminal complaints at Davos, by Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber | Reuters Swiss prosecutors, on Friday, confirmed that Israeli President, Isaac Herzog, had been the subject of criminal complaints during his visit to the World Economic Forum in Davos, as Israel finds itself accused of committing war crimes in Gaza. “The . . . READ MORE . . .
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Gaza militants show video of Israeli hostage, say he is dead. From AFP. A militant group allied to Hamas in Gaza released a video on Friday showing an Israeli hostage who they said had been killed in an Israeli air strike.”Despite . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM JAN. 18 As Gaza’s communication blackout grinds on, some fear it is imperiling lives. Reported by Geoff Brumfiel | NPR Gaza is approaching a week without internet and cellphone service. The lack of communications is making it difficult for the U.N. to distribute the small amount of food and supplies it can get into the territory, which has been under heavy Israeli bombardment since shortly after Hamas militants attacked Israel in October. Click HERE to listen and read.